Player of the Uncanny
Chapter 219

She was a Player

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"Take your medicine."

Qin Manjiang returned to the ward and said this to Li.

He hardly dared meet Li's eyes. After returning last night, he had already felt that something was wrong with her gaze, and just now, Xinxin had brought that matter up again-the occupations and illnesses of the seven people in this hospital were not fixed.

Could it be that although Li's appearance had not changed, her illness had?

Doppelgänger Syndrome made her suspicious of anyone who approached her. It was an extremely terrifying form of persecutory delusion, and Li would strike first at anyone she considered dangerous.

If Li had changed, how could he test what illness she had now?

Li said nothing. She simply stared silently at Qin Manjiang, took the medicine, and swallowed it.

Although she was very strange, she did not resist taking her medicine, which came as a relief to Qin Manjiang.

But just as Qin Manjiang was about to leave the ward to join the others, Li suddenly began to cry!

Qin Manjiang's scalp prickled. It felt so eerie... She had just taken her medicine, and her eyes were still full of that eerie look, her expression abnormal, yet tears kept streaming down her face, and her lips were opening and closing slightly.

What was wrong with her?

Qin Manjiang watched her lips closely. Ever since Yang's reminder during [Yellow Springs Opera], he had made a conscious effort to learn lip-reading. While he could not claim to be proficient yet, he could already recognize some simple sentences.

With an eerie, terrifying expression and eyes full of venomous resentment, Li's face was now streaked with tears, and the words her faintly trembling lips formed were actually: "Run..."

Run?!

Qin Manjiang could hardly believe it. Was she really saying that?

*She... what exactly was

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